Clever Scholars
An engineer, a mathematician and physicist were standing around the university flagpole when an English professor wandered by.” What are you doing?” he asked.
“We need to know the height of the flagpole.” Answered one,” and we’re discussing the formulas we might use to calculate it.”
“watch!” said the English professor. He pulled the pole from its fitting laid it on the grass, borrowed a tape, measured and said,” Exactly 24 feet,” Then he replaced the pole and walked away.
“English professor!’ sneered the mathematician “We ask him for the height, and he gives us the length.”
聰明的學者
一位工程師，一位數學家和一位物理學家站在大學的旗桿下，這時一位英文教授經過那里。“你們在干什么？”他問。
“我們要知道旗桿的高度，”一個說，“我們正在討論可以用來計算的公式。”
“看看！”英文教授說。他把旗桿從移動裝置上拿下來，放在草地上，借了一根帶尺，量完以后說：“整整24英尺。”然后他放回桿子走了。
“英文教授！”數學家嘲笑著說。“我們問他高度，他給我們的是長度。”
